> May be I am living in my bubble, but most of the site I visit, mostly mainstream media news in tech, along with most of the social media post, has a flat out dismissal of Ads in general.

I'd apply the same logic here: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Ad supported models on news paper websites have nearly killed publications like NYTimes. A lot of smaller news papers have died. Only after the paywall model really took off have they been able to survive and thrive.

So there's nothing you can say to the media that will convince them that there's value in ads.

To them, ads and big tech in general are evil entities and must be criticized at every possible turn.